Deumar Tendzin Phüntshog

Tibetan name
Wylie transliteration : de'u dmar bstan 'dzin phun tshogs
Chinese name
Simplified : 帝 玛 · 丹增 彭措
Pinyin : Dima Danzeng Pengcuo

Deumar Tendzin Phüntshog ( tib . De'u dmar bstan 'dzin phun tshogs also Dilmar geshe Tendzin Phüntshog ( Dil dmar dge bshes brtan' dzin phun tshogs ); * 1673 in a circle Gonjo (Gojo) in Qamdo (Chamdo) in Kham (eastern Tibet ); † 1743 ) was a famous pharmacologist and doctor of Tibetan medicine in the 18th century. He lived in Weixi (North Yunnan ).

He was a scholar from the Drugpa Kagyu ( 'brug pa bka' brgyud ) school, one of the so-called "eight smaller schools" of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism ( Vajrayana ).

He is the author of one of the most important works on the materia medica of traditional Tibetan medicine and pharmacology .

He is considered to be the descendant of (Chin.) Biji 比 吉 , one of the nine famous Tibetan doctors of ancient times . He is the author of forty-two books on medical issues, including the Materia Medica crystal beads ( shel gong shel phreng ; Ch . Jingzhu bencao 晶 珠 本草 ), a monumental work on the materia medica of traditional Tibetan medicine .

Shel gong shel phreng

The Crystal Beads Materia Medica ( shel gong shel phreng ) work contains a total of 2,294 pharmaceuticals, divided into 1,176 classes. For all plants and other materia medica, the book provides comprehensive and detailed information on their characteristics, alternative names, properties, taste, place of origin, growing environment as well as effectiveness and use. The work was published in two woodblock prints in Lhasa and Dêgê . This reference work, which is important for the study of Tibetan pharmacology, first appeared in 1840, and it saw many other editions. A Chinese translation was published in 1986 by Shanghai keji chubanshe publishing house.

Medical works

A selection of his medical works was published in Beijing under the title De'u dmar gso rig gces btus (2007).

See also

• List of Materia Medica of traditional Tibetan medicine
• List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of the People's Republic of China

Web links

• Zangyi de fazhan he jiben yili - Chinese
• Jingzhu bencao - Chinese
• Weixi mingren - Dimar Danzeng Pengcuo yu Jingzhu bencao - Chinese

Individual evidence

1. ↑ According to tibet.cctv.com: Zangyi de fazhan he jiben yili (found on June 20, 2010) he died at the age of eighty.
2. ↑ Year of birth and death according to zhzyw.org: Zangyi yaoxue zhong de dianji (found on June 20, 2010)
3. ↑ cf. tbrc-jp.org: “Collected works of a Drugpa Kagyu master from Gonjo” ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (found on June 20, 2010; PDF; 96 kB) 
4. ↑ "The Tibetan materia medica is still a book with seven seals for western medicine." (Egbert Asshauer, Medicine and Herbal Medicine of the Tibetans - paracelsus-magazin.de) - found on June 20, 2010
5. ↑ According to the article on the Uighur pharmacology of baike.baidu: "维 药" (Wéiyào) , the Uyghur (Chinese) Biji Zanba Xilahan 比 吉 · 赞 巴 · 希拉 汗 came from Khotan (Hotan, Chinese Yutian ) in the 8th century to Tibet in the Tianbao era of the Tang Dynasty and served in the Tibetan royal family.
6. ↑ tibet.cctv.com: Zangyi de fazhan he jiben yili (found on June 20, 2010)
7. ↑ Chinese Jingzhu caoben 晶 珠 草本
8. ↑ tibet.cctv.com: Zangyi de fazhan he jiben yili (found on June 20, 2010)

Deumar Tendzin Phüntshog (alternative names of the lemma)

Dilmar Geshé Tendzin Puntsog, deumar geshé tendzin püntsok, Deumar Tenzin Phuntsok, Dima Danzeng Pingcuo 蒂玛 旦 增 平措, Dilmar Geshé Tendzin Puntsog, Dil-dmar Dge-bshes Bstan-'dzin-phun-tshogs, Dil dmar drtan 'b dzin phun tshogs, Dima Gexi Danzeng Pengcuo 底 瑪格西 ‧ 丹增 彭措, Dima Danzeng Pengcuo 帝 玛尔. 丹增 彭措, Dilmar Geshe Tenzin Punthsok, De'u / Dil dmar dge bshes bstan 'dzin phun tshogs, Deumar Geshes Tendzin Puntsog; Diwumar Gexi Danzeng Pingcuo 第 邬 玛尔 • 丹增 平措 de'u dmar dge bshes brtan 'dzin phun tshogs Deumar Geshe Tendzin Phüntshog